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jazzyvee

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Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« on: July 04, 2018, 03:42:49 AM »
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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2018, 04:40:20 AM »
YABBA-DABBA-DOO!!  ;D
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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2018, 05:15:56 AM »
A pine neck.  That must be interesting to deal with when the humidity changes.
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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2018, 06:16:22 AM »
The offset/ stepped headstock is interesting. 
Certainly “one of a kind”.
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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2018, 07:24:48 AM »
I'd like to see one made like that big bird he played that has strings attached.. and didn't he play one that was made from a big curved bone?
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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2018, 08:40:35 AM »
Sort of looks like a top-of-the-line Wish Bass.

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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2018, 09:27:01 AM »
That looks just like the bass I made in wood shop when I was 15!!

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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2018, 01:05:17 PM »
What a beauty!!!  ;D
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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2018, 02:01:29 PM »
OK, where's the alleged cherry? the fretboard?

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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2018, 02:57:49 PM »
This should have been inlaid in the headstock.

Then it would be a bass made from Chris Pine.
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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2018, 04:40:28 PM »
LOL !
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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2018, 01:25:18 PM »
At last a bass that is even more homely than my Martin EB-18!!
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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2018, 11:26:47 PM »
should come with a loincloth...call ted Nugent's bass player!
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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2018, 10:10:31 PM »
Yes indeed, that IS a 'New Other'.
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Re: Fred Flintstone's bass has been discovered on Ebay?
« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2018, 07:50:20 PM »
It’s a Gibstone. Or maybe even an Alembrock.
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